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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-12-03
TOP-DRESSING MEADOWS.
Winter a Good Time for Applying Good
and Well-Rotted Manure.


If from any reason it is especially
desirable to keep land seeded to grass
for hay, the surest way Of keeping up
the fertility is by top dressing. Apply
whatever fertilizer is needed on the
surface. When the farm lays in such
way that good system of rotation
can be carried on, blowing up the
meadows and applying the necessary
manure will be found to be the best
plan. But there are circumstances that
render it not always advisable to follow
this plan, and when u good even stand
of grass is secured, it will be best to let
it remain as long as profitable crops
can be secured, and in order to do this
it will be necessary to keep up the fer
tility by top dressing. Good, we'll
rottcd and fined manure should be used
whenever it can be had and is, perhaps,
the best fertilizer that we can employ.
And during the fall and winter when
the ground is solid so that the wheels
of the wagon will not cut down into the
sward, is good time for hauling out
and applying.
1t is very essential that the manure
applied be fined. If applied in Jumps
the grass must fail to derive the full
benefit of the application, and such
treatment is inclined to make the grass
spotted and often the large, coarse
Jumps will kill the grass underneath.
If properly managed so that it is thor
oughly rotted the necessary handling
will sufficiently fine it if care is taken
in applying to scatter evenly over the
surface.
If the soil is in fit condition a good
narrowing can often be given with
profit. If this can not be done when
the application is given, reasonably
early in the spring, after the ground
.ettles, is good time to harrow This
tends to loosen the surface, and at the
same time fine the manure and work
it around the roots. Superphosphate
can nearly always be applied to grass
land with profit. Good wood ashes, if
scattered evenly, will be found valuable
when they can be had conveniently.
But the average farmer will usually
find well rotted stable manure to be the
most economical, and by keeping up
the fertility by top dressing with it, the
land may be made 10 yield profitable
crops of grass long time without
change. Cor. Farm, Field and Stock
man
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-12-03

keeper no longer exists, to take the
bulk thereof as his toll.
The result of lifting the in
cubus of supporting the saloon-keep-
ers in luxury from the shoulders of
these men is exactly the same as that
stated above; the same result is
reached as if their incomes were in
creased by the amount they formerly
spent for rum. They all live better
They have better food, more abundant,
in quantity and in greater variety.
They dress themselves, their wives and
children, comfortably and decently.
They live in larger and better houses,
which are better furnished. These
are now homes, in place of cherries.
barracks. There are pictures on the,
walls, books and papers on the table.
They enjoy life, instead CT its being a.
burden.
What effect has this on every line of
legitimate business? The question an
swers Itself. The money that once
supported the accursed saloons now
goes to support the real business en-,
terprises. The butcher shops and
groceries, the clothing stores. the dry.
goods and millinery establishments,
| the furniture stores-in fact, every
possible kind of business house which
sup plies the ordinary, legitimate needs
of our modern civilization has it's
trade increased. This increases the
demand on the farmers the manufact-
urers and all who supply them with
their goods. The money is kept in
the legitimate channels of trade, and
not poured into the bursting Golfers of
the rum power.
We have in mind a town in Ohio
of six thousand inhabitants. 1t has
thirty saloons which pay the Dow tax.
Each of the saloons has an average
daily revenue of over ten dollars.
That is three hundred dollars a days
and, as they are open on Sundays, it.
is twenty one hundred dollars a week,
or, for the entire year, $109, 200. 1t,
has the reputation of being rather
quiet, dull town. Suppose that this
$109, 200 was spent in the stores and
other establishments of the town
would not business "boomP" 1t is,
more than the total business of the
three largest houses in the town.
Toledo Blade.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-12-03
FARM AND FIRESIOE,

Raw onions, chopped fine an,
mixed with the food twice week, arr
said to be a preventive of chicken chol
era.
Many of the ills affecting the hogs
are due to filthy pens. 1t is not SC
much in the amount of filth that the
difficulty is met as in the dampnes.
caused by the filth.
Poor Mans Pudding: Three cups
of -four, one cup of suet, one cup of
raisins, one teaspoonful of soda, spices
to suit the taste; boil two hours; use
with sauce.-Motter'S Magaztne.
Maple Sugar; Crate maple sugar,
mix it in quantities to suit taste with
French cream, adding enough confec-
TONERS sugar to mold into any shape
desired. Exchange.
Some women make half-dozen
trips to the cellar when one would be
sufficient if they worked as we'll with
their heads as they do with their hands.
They do not take the trouble to think
before going to the cellar or storeroom
for one thing, that several other things
will be required from that place. III
diGnapoLis Sentinel.
Cottage Cake: Three-fourths of a
cup of butter, one cup of white sugar,
one and one-half cups of flour, four eggs
(yelks and white beaten separately,
one tablespoonfuls of sweet milk, one
and one-half teaspoonfuls of baking
powder, little salt, flavor with lemon.
Rub the baking powder into the -four.
-Erchange.
In England q fine flavor is i'm
parted to the flesh of fattening turkeys
by feeding them in confinement with
cooked food in which chopped sweet
herbs, like parsley, have been mixed.
In this country some wise duck raisers
give their fowls celery tops to flavor the
meat; this imparts the fine gamey
flavor which is so much admired in the
wild ducks from Delaware and Chesa-
peake, where they feed on wild celery.
Feathers are very rich in nitrogen,
and should be used to add to the strength
Of the manure heap. Like bones, they
may be quickly reduced by soaking
them in solution of sulphuric acid and
| covering them with coarse compost,
with which they may be subsequently
mixed. Indeed, so strong are they that
if properly distributed and applied The
results on crop of corn will be sur
prising. - Chicago Times.
Jenny Lind Padding: Peel ten or
twelve tart apples and slice them very
thin, or chop fine; CRATE several thick
slices of dry bread, rrub them through
a colander; place in q pudding dish,
well buttered, 4 layer of apple, with
plenty Of sugar and grated lemon peel
or powdered cassia; then a layer o.
bread crumbs, with bits of butter scat
tered all over it; fill up the dish in this
way, and bake for three-quarters of an
hour; serve with whipped cream. -
Boston Budget.
Caramel Frosting for Cake: One
cup of milk, two cups of white sugar,
lump of butter size of walnut. Boil
until, when trying on saucer, it is
thick but not too stiff Beat it fast till
it is creamy, then spread it on the cake.
If it runs it is not boiled enough; if il
crumbles it is boiled too much. BY
! little practice one can make it without
fail and have a cheap nice frosting
Two grated spoonfuls of chocolate
added while boiling will make choco
late frosting without eggs.-Farme'
and Manufacturer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-12-03
A WOMAN'S SORROW.


She read the page with mournful eye;
so heart she said, lit is strangel
I could weep when think how mans wild Low,
Can slontly cool, and change!
ITO look at Jacks letters of long agol
My angel my love, my own
'The light of my dreams, my lovely ONE
But this, to-day, is his tone:
"'Dear wife, o. X, and the trunk has come;
Tell Williams I'll telegraph;
He might have managed the thing himself
If he hadn't been such calf
"I'm here for a week, at the Wilmington
Enough to eat-of the kind;
Look under the bureau, some time, dear,
For that stud that couldn't find.
'I've got an ear-ache-confounded draft
On the train. You can ask Old Ray
To cash your checks for you. Don't forget
To send me my hannels.-J.'"
She dropped a tear as she took her pen,
Yet these were the words she wrote:
''Dear Hubby, told you you'd get your death
Without your big overcoat.
'The man for the carpets came to-day,
haven't seen Williams since;
Dear mother arrived last night-to stay
And we're doing up jelly (quince)
'"ralze care of your money, for goodness sake
The check was perfect boon;
Your fiannels? N. G. Get some new ones, dear
The baby is well. Write SOON
She shook her head as she traced her name,
And sealed her letter with signs;
ut is hard for woman to understand
How soon mans sentiments die"
-MddeLiGe S. Bridqes, Ia Puck.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-12-03
THE CAPTAIN WAS DRUNK.
Whisky Causes the Wreck of Propeller
and the Loss of Fifty Lives.

WHISKY causes the wreck OF n propeller
and the Loss of Fifty Lives.
One more disaster may be put down
to the account of Intoxicating liquor.
The propeller Vernon" that carriec
fifty victims to sudden death in Lake
Michigan, might have lived through
the storm that wrecked her, despite
her faulty construction, had Captain
Thorp, her master, been sober. He
has been for some time notorious
drunkard. Edgar A. Hall, brother of
the second engineer of the Vernon"
says that Thorp once had an attack of
delirium tremens while on top of the
pilot house. A prominent wholesale
merchant told Hall that during one
trip Thorp was drunk the entire tie,
the merchant was on the boat. Two
ladies who arrived in Chicago Septem-
Der 3, on the Vernon" state that
Captain Thorp was drunk during the
entire trip.
Axel Stone, the sole survivor of the
disaster, says:
THE captain was drunk most of the
time, and he was very drunk when we
left Cheboygan last week. While we
were coming through the straits the
second mate said to him: Sober up,
you drunken beast, and take care of
this boat and the people, The cap
tain told him to go to -. was in
the cabin at the time and heard every
word that was said. Friday night,
which was the night that the steamer
was lost the captain was as drunk as
ever saw him, and he kept taking a
drink every little while from a bottle
that he carried in his coat pocket L
guess that is why the first mate staid
on deck all of the time. He knew that.
the captain was so drunk that he didn't.
hardly know what he was about, and
was probably afraid the captain would
do something foolish. If the captain
had been sober don't believe the YES
sci would have been lost, for any sober
man would have turned back when he
saw how badly she acted in the big
sea-"
Captains Sullivan and Higgins. the,
first and second mates were expert.
encCd sea captains, and had not the.
drunken Captain Thorpe been in COM
| mand, marine authorities are strongly
of the opinion that the steamer would
still be afoat When the steamer left
Cheboy gan she was loaded, at the
drunken captains demand, until her
deck was but Sir inches above water
line She was loaded so heavily that.
her forward gangways could not be-
closed, and when the sea began run
ming the waves washed through the.
gangways into the boat. Stone says
he suggested the boat be lighted by
lighted by throwing over II part of the
cargo, but the drunken captain an
swered him with an oath.
This matter of drunkenness is no..
body's business but the drinkers. No
one is injured except the man who
drinks. So say many people who pro-
TESS to be good Temperance men.
Wisconsin, ProhibitioniSt
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-12-03
Distillation of Wood.

The distillation of wood is becoming
an important industry. Its chief seat
is at present at Cadosia, N. Y. where
several large establishments are in
active operation. Hard woods alone
have as yet been found available. The
products are: First, alcohol second,
acetic vapors; third, tar and naptha;
fourth, heavy tars, and fifth, charcoal.
BY this means the entire product of
nature is disintegrated and made serv-
iceable in some form. Outside Of the
alcohol the products arc not only use
full but valuable. but the former pre-
sents chances for decoctions which NAV
be found to add considerable to the
mortality list resultant from alcoholic
mixtures, as there can be no doubt but
the alcohol is more or less subject to
the action of the gases incident to the
retort system of evaporation. = Omaha
Herald.
Man troIa ~, borrnvvaJ
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-12-03
TEMPERANCE READING.
THE TWO SIGNS.

At the sign of 1.-THE Glass of Champagne"
On the corner, what see you at mighty
Thro' the oft opened door, the high-polished
floor
And mirrors and ''bar fixtures bright
Pass under 1.-THE Glass of Champagne"
Gaudy pictures bedecll the pale wall,
Not an oath is here heard, not loud-spoken
word,
Meek walters obey ev'ry call.
Not sound Of carousal or brawl-
All is quiet, and polished, and fine.
Here gentSmen call in socety's drawL
For their brandy or sparkling wine.
Pedestrians on the street hear
But the click of the cues as they pass,
II Is not a disgrace to be seen in this place,
And the drunkards here made are frst-class.
See that youth barely out of his teens
Approach the gay, glittering bar
His head is held high. and smiling his eye,
AS he calls for his wine or cigar.
Diamonds flash on his snowy-white shirt,
Diamonds flash on his suowy-whte hand.
He's the acme of style, oh, well may he smile,
For fortune is his to command.
At the sign of 1.-THE Big Lager Glass"
On the corner what so unds do you hear?
You hear fstic bouts, and vile drunken shouts,
And the clinllng Of glasses of beer.
Pass under ''rhe Big Lager Glass
There is dancing and music in there,
And topical songs on the working-man's wrongs
By maidens once guileless and fair.
Pass on to the high sloppy bar,
See that brute bloated, dirty, bleareyed,
Clothes tattered and torn, unshaven, unshorn
Hand nervously twitching at side.
See him search and research his foul rags,
See the big drops Of sweat on his brow
Ev'ry nerve, ev'ry vein is throbbing with pain,
And crying for stimulus nO1C.
Al the sign of "The Glass of Champagne"
You saw, not a long time ago,
With his head held up high, and with gay
smiling eye,
This brute SO besotted and low.
At the sign of '"rhe Glass of Champagne
He once strutted proud lisping swell,
He scorned to drink beer, but he begs for /
here
In q lower but not worse hell.
Let's depart from this horrible den,
| And as thro' its dark portals we pass,
Let's swear, as we're men, to never again
| Pass under 1.-THE Big Lager Glass"
| And let's swear, as we laugh at the brutes,
And scolf at their will-power and brain,
| To take to the stall if we e'er again call
| at the sign of 1.-THE Glass of Champagne"
Tile Voice.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-12-03

THAT is dreadful charge, Polly
winkum," said |. What are you go
ing to do about itPn
'Tll engage Mr.. McIlwaine to defend
me-" replied the little bakeress, run
ming to look into an oven. But. some-
how, her face was red even before she
opened the oven door!-Good Cheer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-12-03

WE hold the liquor traffic to be an
unmitigated curse at all times and in
every place; the pursuance of it on
the Sabbath day adds little. if any
thing, to its enormity, but, since it is
permitted by law to run its ruinous
and degrading course for six days of
the week, we do demand that the
saloons, those mills of destruction,
shall cease grinding one day in seven
their grist Of disease and misery and
crime, shall give us time enough to
pray, with renewed zeal, that God will
hasten the day when this mother Of
denominations may be wholly wiped
from the earth T. Observer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-12-03

Men trade on borrowed reputation
as they trade on borrowed capital.
Daily Republican., 1887-10-19
THE VENTILATION FIEND.
How he Dan He Met at Any Time and
His method


His method
He is ubiquitous just at this time oil
the year. He is at all the churches,
the theatres, the lecture halls, the con
cert rooms, the libraries, the restaur-
ants. He may well move about, for
he cannot get his heart in peril within
any space enclosed by four walls, no
matter how far apart they may be.
The instant that he enters room, he
begins to pant and puff and blow and
gasp. Everybody else may be per-
fectly comfortable; 1t matters nothing
to the Ventilation Fiend. "How on
earth can you live in this sitting at.
mospheref" he exclaims in a tone of
suffocation-and up he raises win
dow, and lets the chill, autumn air
rush in, bringing with it catarrh, rheu
natism and pain for every one, himself
included.
For be it noted that the Ventilation
Fiend always has cold or stiff
neck, or some other afiliction, the re-
suit OF constant exposure to drafts. But
this does not bother him. His mission
on earth is TO make others sick and
miserable. AS long as he succeeds in
doing this he doesn't mind moderate
dose of bodily suffering on his own &C.
count.
All the doctors are, of course, aiders
and abettors of the Ventilation Fiend,
They appreciate his services. They
chuckle in secret delight over the bills
to be reno cred for naming the diseases
which his pernicious activity entails.
Visions of guinine and tonics and lini.
ments attend his career; gaunt ma
laria stalks close behind him; his foot
steps are re-echoed to their ears in the
sounds of sneezes and coughs. So the
doctors talk learnedly of the evils of
"house air." and cheer on tie Venti-
lalion Fiend in his reprchensible pro-
ceedings.
But the watchw word of the day is re-
form. Humanity Is slowly but surely
shaking from its irritated thl-at the
grasp OF the Ventilation Fieud. By
am by we shall find somebody bold
enough to say that he would rather be
a little too warm than to catch cold,
and the window will be closed with q
slam and crush the fingers OF the Ven
tilation fiend to jelly.
Daily Republican., 1887-10-19
THE sOiENOE OF sfLkNun

l have read somewhere the follow
ing arrangement for avoiding family
quarrels: "You see, SIR said an old
man, speaking ola couple who lived
In perfect harmony in his neighbor-
hood, they'd agreed between them
selves that whenever he came home a
little contrary and out of temper, he
wore his hat on the back of his head.
and then she never said word; and ii
she came in little cross and crooked,
she threw her shawl over her left
shoulder, and he never said word"
AS 1t takes two TO make u quarrel,
either the husband or the wife might
often prevent one by stepping out of
the room st the nick o; time; by en-
deavo-ing TO divert attention and con-
versation from the burning question;
by breathing an instantaneous prayer
to God for calmnesss before making
any reply; in word, by learning to
put In practice on certain occasions
the science of silence. Robert Bur
ton tells of a woman who, hearing
one of her "gossips" complain OF her
husbands impatience, told her an ex.
cellent remedy for it. She gave her
a glass of water, which, when he
brawled, she should hold still in her
mouth. She did so two or three times
with great success, and at length,
seeing her neighbor, she thanked he
tor 1t, and asked to know the ingre-
|dients. She told her that it was fair
water" and nothing more; for it was
not the water, but the silence which
performed the cure.
He who has learned the science of
silence may hide ignorance, and even
acquire reputation for know ledge
and wisdom. A story is told of the
painter Zeuxis, how he rcproved q
certain high priest of Great Diana of
the Ephesiana, who discoursed OF pic
lures in the artists studio, with 30
reckless an audacity OF ignorance, that
the very lads who were grinding col.
ors could not refrain from giggling,
whereupon Zeuxis said to his elo.
quent friend, "As long as you kept
from talking you were the admiration
of the boys; who were all wonder at
|your rich attire and the number
|of your servants; but now that you
have ventured to expatiate upon the
arts OF which you know nothing, they
are laughing at you outright" De-
nouncing the vapid verbiage of shall
low praters. Carlyle explains. Even
|Triyiality and Imbecility that can sit
silent, how respectable are they in
comparisonl' 1t was said of one who
was taken for q great man so long as
he held his peace, "This man might
have been councillor OF State till he
spoke; but having spoken, not the
beadle of ward"
Lord Lytton tells the story of a
groom married to rich lady and in
constant trepidation of being ridiculed
by the guests in his new home. An
Oxford Clergyman gave him this adj
vice: "Wear black coat and hold
your tongue" The groom was soon
considered the most gentlemanly per-
son in the country.
Daily Republican., 1887-10-19
OOrsu "A = gAUn CURED.

An old physician retired nom practice
having had placed In his hands oy an East
India missionary the formula Of simple
vegetable remedy for the speedy and perms-
nsnt cure OF Consumption, Bronchitis, Ga.
lnrrh, hsthpas and all throat and Lung
AtioetiU ms, Also posiJtYe and radical cure
for Nervous debility spd S.l Nervous Gem
nIalnts. alter having tested its wonderful
curative no wcrs In Thousands Of cases, has
felt il his DUTY to Ioaka II known to his
sl;teripg fellows. Adjusted by this motive
and n desire to reItpve human suffering, /
viii seud iroe of charge, to all who dsstre IT,,
This recipe, Ia German, FroDoh or Il n3ish
with mil directions TOR preparine and using
sent oy mall by address Ing with stamp
NAMING this ropar ". A. NUYEs, ,llaD Row
ar,e Rlock. Rochester. N. \. iY-eOW'w
Daily Republican., 1887-10-19
IEROE COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
Record Building. 9IT .819 Chestnut
Street, Phiiad s,phia, Pa

Thomas g-sy Piercs, 81. A.,
Principal snd "0pGder. Morning, Assef
noon ard high. %cgslura
Lsdt les AND Hant iesS 81 are instructed IN
toe hnical lnnaIedgs qualifying the&n5 fol
the ira asacticn ofbueinesn ana tao proper
hispagemeny Of D1s.ness aNaiFs.
business men, merchants and farmers
who have hsd doubts 40 to whatnsr o practi.
cal bustneis education could BIS ootainsd
eutstde OF the counting room have icon eur
prissd at tho thoroughly praotcsi manner
In which tEetr sons ard dauGhters have
been qualified 70. Euniness cnGakensnts al
fiercs slcl:a2e, Snd are now among ia
wArmest frisnds.
Ten hUndred aud fry O?bo) Students
last year.
Csli or write for Ciroulsr saa Oar1msuse.
"a eno pfeseadinss, containing eedr"sses OF
itoVeybofs Beaver ana BiSRs,ana Hav. Sam.
". EIAn ana Hsv. Sam. p. Jones.
kEv JOHN THGMFji N, cesn.
Choss, Rooms 5 AID 8, Secant finor.
s1S ,oatl&w,em
Daily Republican., 1887-10-19

pUBllIO SALE VI Srlun ..eJLI1 BE
K sold a. prtlie salo OF q. W gSy1<Sn
Baldwin,. aoosh's Corner, D.la. EE2s
waie County, Pa. on W0
MUEUAY, OCTOBER alru, 1857,
att e';locz, p. m,
30 head Of carefully selected fresh COWS and
sprtugers, diro,t from Ouuosfiend DO Pa.
Cur s.ocE always Knafant end as rti reese nted.
Two and iocr months credit
GUOlILEG Il IA LUWIN.
a. o. SharpIesg. Euct. OILS daw.,a
Daily Republican., 1887-10-19

NOTiUE--2oo SHARES NEW SEXES
IN Moshsr ios' Building Losn Stock lust
Issued and FOR salc. First payment Cd the
second TUESDAY ~ Stay. al appIicstioni
alt Frsnoh street, viii rocofvo prompt alton
tion. a22-eod-u
Daily Republican., 1887-10-19
forssie.

E1InJD 2.sruKY BKlOK
\ ~ ". =, t.,l; now tia roof; drT
III, % rent; selling because
|. y Wing in Philadelphia. a
4, Won. appiy TO ]. J. VIII
". ,inss,nri and Ada ms sta..
O. IA l.. DAupn'n street,
oIS.lmA
Daily Republican., 1887-10-19
HARNESS, TRUNKS
MANUFACTuaEb, AID
a

fop VIII and J. 4. DeEner 81 hi, nsr
9Cro, No. East Fourth Gtreat, WAsrs VOC
. III md tbs LARGEST 6t0ok az hr2i cia4
rcoda In his itns. Prices to suit ths rraos.
10 90 rs.ccrenGot. Peckae-be5ks snt 1s1a-
b&Sb. uu5
Daily Republican., 1887-10-19

A OhRD-MHS. FAC IAN, WIihiW OF
IA the lata Michnal Pagan, informs her
old customers that he will resum, the
manufacture OF WinsAr Boots aod SHOES.
wholesale and tetst,, at nv. 6l2 West Front
street. s14 int
Daily Republican., 1887-10-19

when baby WAS sick, We gave hsr Csstorlt,
When che was child, she cried scr Snstor,a
when she had Children, she .EaVe them Cas-
tOorla,